ICE Dallas Shooting: Let the Liberal Gaslighting Begin. Rumors of War. Pregnant Women Post Videos of Themselves Taking Tylenol. And More

“Left Hate Leads to Murder” screams the New York Post front-page headline. Pictured is pudgy Joshua Jahn, 29, who shot up an ICE facility before turning the gun on himself.

Jahn appeared to be targeting ICE agents, but he hit illegal aliens being detained by ICE instead, killing one and injuring two others. Time magazine describes Jahn, who appears to be of Norwegian heritage, as a former Boy Scout with a “drug-related criminal history.” Jain’s sis shares his criminal past.

Jain’s mother had posted anti-gun rants aimed at Republican lawmakers a few days before the shooting. Sharon Jahn posted:

“Governor Abbott, Senator Cornyn and Senator Cruz how does it make you feel that your action to open up gun laws is responsible for the killing of 21 more people?” the anti-ICE gunman’s mother wrote in a May 25, 2022 post.

It’s not unfair to ask: How do you feel now, Mrs. Jahn?

The New York Times complains that there is “a rush to score political points before the facts are in.”  The MSM is clinging to Jahn’s having registered to vote as an independent. His political opinions are said to be shrouded in mystery, despite the blatant and unmistakable anti-ICE slogans on his bullets. C’mon, you’re not fooling anybody, probably not even yourselves. Townhall’s Matt Vespa writes:

This will be another test to determine whether the legacy media’s power is truly waning. I think it is—they can no longer control narratives. The ones they trot out to distract us are easily dismissed as bunk. Still, we had another politically motivated attack in Texas yesterday, where Joshua Jahn, 29, opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas, killing two detainees and injuring another before he committed suicide. No, he was not a right-winger. He was targeting federal vehicles. Jahn also had anti-ICE messaging on the ammunition. 

National Review’s Jim Geraghty calls this latest shooting “another case of left-wing violence.” Jeffrey Blehar of the same outlet notes:

The gaslighting has already begun, incidentally. The denizens of Bluesky, America’s self-imposed social media leper colony, are currently going through the exact same cycle of denial and conspiratorial thinking that they did with Charlie Kirk, except this time they’ve had practice so they’re speedrunning it like Twitch streamers. “Nobody writes ANTI-ICE on a bullet, do you really trust a liar like Kash Patel?” “Maybe he was trying to kill the detainees!” “It’s too early to speculate about motive!”

An editorial in the New York Post argues that Democrats’ “Nazi rhetoric” about ICE inspired this shooting. Don’t miss California Governor Gavin Newsom on “masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing.” If you are counting, it’s been two weeks and one day since Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

Georgetown University is being papered with “Hey, Fascist” fliers urging students to resurrect the bloody legacy of lunatic John Brown. The group brags they are “the only political group that celebrates when Nazis die.” Hey, fascist was etched on a bullet by the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Another Rave Review Is In: Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York calls President Trump’s United Nations address Tuesday “epic.” He reprints the entire speech, and it is well worth reading. An editorial in the Wall Street Journal asks if there is a “new start” for Trump on Ukraine, adding that “harder rhetoric will have to be followed by a much harder policy toward Russia.”

President Trump’s UN speech was delivered in an atmosphere of rumors of war. “I’ve Seen the Future of War. Europe Isn’t Ready” is the headline in Niall Ferguson’s latest Free Press piece. “Hundreds of drones buzzing overhead like lethal hornets, watching with unblinking eyes for targets, others descending for the kill. Soon there will be thousands,” Ferguson alarmingly argues.

We appear to be on the cusp of a government shutdown. The American Spectator says a shutdown can’t come a minute too soon, while Karl Rove’s Wall Street Journal column is devoted to which party will be blamed. “The only certainty is that public trust in Washington isn’t about to improve,” Rove’s subhead. But isn’t skepticism about Washington a Good Thing?

Apropos of that question, the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley Strassel observes, “The sheer number of Washington’s political probes raises a question: Can D.C. do anything beyond investigations anymore?”

If we’re binging on Washington headlines, why not binge on the Wall Street Journal opinion pages, too? Barton Swaim has an excellent piece on Trump’s crackdown on crime in D.C. Swaim writes:

I was there again in early September. At every stop guardsmen were on patrol. They weren’t doing much of anything, but plainly their presence deterred the hooligans, nuisances and crazy people who can make the Metro unpleasant. The city’s government, too, had made itself more visible than I’ve ever seen—Metro Transit Police officers below ground, Metropolitan Police Department patrol cars above.

I took the Metro from Northwest to the decidedly down-market Hill East neighborhood, my destination a superb gluten-free bakery called, in a nice irony, Sweet Crimes. The place is a few blocks from the Potomac Avenue Metro stop. In February, the stop’s entrance was peopled by vagrants, one of whom shouted at no one. This time, the vagrants were either gone or peaceable, the grounds cleared of the needles and other garbage I’d seen before. Five guardsmen stood nearby….

The cost may be worth it in the long term. Mr. Trump, in his own unruly way, is reminding American city-dwellers and their elected leaders of a simple principle they forgot over the last 15 years: that the visible presence of authority does more to prevent crime than any social program or economic-development project. The president has said repeatedly that he may send troops to Chicago or Memphis on a similar mission—a legally more complicated move than taking control of the federal District of Columbia. I don’t think he’ll have to.

Hollywood Discovers the Virtue of Free Speech. “Better late than never. Now that the celebs have defended Jimmy Kimmel, how about Alex Berenson?” ask the Editors of The Free Press.

On Merit, Both Harris and Buttigieg Were Failures. Thus spake Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the Maria Bartiromo show.

Fertility Declines Are a Cultural Problem. Josh Appel makes this case at City Journal. Further Study: P.D. James explored infertility in her amazing book, “The Children of Men,” which begins in a time when no child has been born for 25 years. I avoided it for years because I thought it had a lot of science fiction.  It doesn’t, and it’s incredibly powerful.

Google is saying that, yes, the Biden administration did pressure them to censor:

Crucially, it turns out many of those banned had never actually broken the rules: The company simply folded, silencing even perfectly true speech, because the Biden crew demanded it, and “created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation.”

“Misinformation,” once again, simply meaning info (right, wrong or mixed) that the people in power didn’t approve of.

Former FBI Director and Seashell Collector James Comey is expected to be indicted soon in a Virginia Court.

We’ll Show Him: Pregnant women are posting videos of themselves taking Tylenol to defy the Trump administration’s warning about Tylenol and pregnancy. No word yet on how pregnant men are responding to the administration’s caution.

Christopher Rufo had an interesting piece in City Journal yesterday on “radical normie terrorism.” Why are Middle American families producing monsters?” Rufo asks, suggesting that assassins come from perfectly normal families. He writes:

These acts of terror reflect something dark in our nation’s soul. The perpetrators were so dissatisfied with their middle-class lives that they sought to destroy the highest symbols of their society: murdering children in church pews, an attack on God; and murdering a political speaker in cold blood, an attack on the republic.

But are the majority of these monsters from normal families who are connected to normal cultural, civic, and religious customs? And that, I submit, is the “something dark” in our nation’s soul.